Substance Use and Risk-taking Behaviors – What Parents Need to Know
“It could be the ugliest person in the world; someone we wouldn’t think twice about if we were sober, but we’d go to bed with if we were high or intoxicated.”...
Escaping The Prison Of Negative Thinking
Negative thinking is capable of penetrating the healthiest of minds. It knows no allies or friends. While it may be fostered in the mind of an individual; it can become a...
New Year’s Resolutions and Self-control
New Year’s is the time when many of us make resolutions to replace questionable habits with better ones. We decide to lose weight, eat healthier, drink less, or change...
Traumatic Events- Their Effect on Thinking Behavior
Trauma victims disassociate or compartmentalize traumatic events in the subconscious mind. How can we unlock those sequestered trauma memories that reproduce negative or even life-threatening situations or activities? Years...
Saving Your Loved Ones from Addiction By Treating the Disease in the Brain and...
Across America today, families are faced with unparalleled challenges from social media, peer pressure, financial insecurity, health issues, pervasive anxiety and inordinate stress which opens the door to darkness...
DETACHING FROM OUR FALSE SELF
Humans are a troubled lot. Inundated by waves of fear and uncertainty, we welcome pain into our lives and needlessly suffer. Like psychotic shape shifters, we revisit the ugly...
LIVING BEYOND – THE BRAIN, ADDICTION AND DISCRIMINATION
When we think of addicts, we seldom associate the word discrimination. Yet, there is clearly an undeniable association between discrimination and addiction. Although scientific research has proven that addiction...
SELF-PORTRAITURE
To a person looking from outside in, self-portraiture in therapy could appear to reinforce egotism and narcissism. This is especially true in an age when appearance is deemed to...
THE EYE OF A NEEDLE
“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the...
A DAY IN THE LIFE: ANXIETY
Sometimes, it’s counting the minutes until you can leave. Sometimes, it’s a nervous tick that helps to maintain your calm. Sometimes, it’s a pressure on your chest that manifests...
